Quid Hic Agis? Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: A BBCCDDEEFFGGHHAAIIGG JJKKIILLII A MMNGIOPBIOGPGQQGIIII RR A PPKKGHGHHHPPHHPPSSII II II | A |
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When I weekly knew | B |
An ancient pew | B |
And murmured there | C |
The forms of prayer | C |
And thanks and praise | D |
In the ancient ways | D |
And heard read out | E |
During August drought | E |
That chapter from Kings | F |
Harvest time brings | F |
How the prophet broken | G |
By griefs unspoken | G |
Went heavily away | H |
To fast and to pray | H |
And while waiting to die | A |
The Lord passed by | A |
And a whirlwind and fire | I |
Drew nigher and nigher | I |
And a small voice anon | G |
Bade him up and be gone | G |
I did not apprehend | J |
As I sat to the end | J |
And watched for her smile | K |
Across the sunned aisle | K |
That this tale of a seer | I |
Which came once a year | I |
Might when sands were heaping | L |
Be like a sweat creeping | L |
Or in any degree | I |
Bear on her or on me | I |
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II | A |
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When later by chance | M |
Of circumstance | M |
It befel me to read | N |
On a hot afternoon | G |
At the lectern there | I |
The selfsame words | O |
As the lesson decreed | P |
To the gathered few | B |
From the hamlets near | I |
Folk of flocks and herds | O |
Sitting half aswoon | G |
Who listened thereto | P |
As women and men | G |
Not overmuch | Q |
Concerned at such | Q |
So like them then | G |
I did not see | I |
What drought might be | I |
With me with her | I |
As the Kalendar | I |
Moved on and Time | R |
Devoured our prime | R |
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III | A |
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But now at last | P |
When our glory has passed | P |
And there is no smile | K |
From her in the aisle | K |
But where it once shone | G |
A marble men say | H |
With her name thereon | G |
Is discerned to day | H |
And spiritless | H |
In the wilderness | H |
I shrink from sight | P |
And desire the night | P |
Though as in old wise | H |
I might still arise | H |
Go forth and stand | P |
And prophesy in the land | P |
I feel the shake | S |
Of wind and earthquake | S |
And consuming fire | I |
Nigher and nigher | I |
And the voice catch clear | I |
What doest thou here | I |
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The Spectator During the War | I |
Thomas Hardy
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